Title: The Golden Ring Author: Sky Fairy E-mail: ejdaly@earthlink.net AIM: LitiaSkyFairy Chapter: One- Reunited Rating: PG (nothing too bad () Timeline: After Stars Setting: Tokyo “ “ = Speech ‘ ’ = Thoughts << >> Flashback {{ }} = Authors Notes ~*~*~*~ = Next Scene Disclaimer: I (obviously) do not own Sailor Moon. She, (as we all know,) belongs to Naoko Tekuchi. I do wish I owned her though, as you do too, but I don’t. Darn it! Note: This is one of my “Soul Inside” story with the Legendary Sailor Scouts. I have become quite attached to them through my writing of the Sailor Moon L fan fiction… So I hope you don’t mind them. Oh, and they are in their “Cosmic” form in this fiction. Also, the first characters to die in this story were not because I don’t like them, they were randomly chosen out of a hat, because I couldn’t decide which to use. It, however, will not change the story, which is mainly about Cosmos and the Legendary Sailors. Oh, another thing…some things may be a bit hard to understand, so I will draw pictures to go along with it, and if you can’t find them on the site where you found this fan fiction, E-mail me and I’ will be glad to send them to you! Oh, and like I always say, although the Legendary Scouts were based after my best friend, my sister, and I, WE ARE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE! Although we did use the same features, we are not quite as tall, we are not super models (although I wish I were) and we aren’t designers. So please, don’t think that we are bragging, cause we’re not. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ The dusky remains of a city lay before her deep, blue eyes. The shattered buildings resembled places she once knew and loved, but had long forgotten, many moons ago. The streets were covered in filth, and there were no signs of life. But, every once in a while, her eyes would lay upon a past sign that life had once thrived in this bleak dessert. And every time she came across one, she would pick it up, and hold it close to her, as she walked on to her distant destination. A cold wind blew, and her long, blonde hair rippled behind her, like the ocean’s waves. The cold breeze reminded her of a dark time, when her life’s purpose had ended. ‘I hate this!’ her mind cried. ‘If I have to walk through such a land of death and sorrow, can’t I at least find a reminder of…’ her voice cut off as her eyes met a sparkling, gold figure about twenty-five feet away. She dropped her things and ran towards it. “It has to be the locket!” she whispered to herself. “The golden, star locket Darien gave to Serena many, many years ago. The one that kept them together for all those years…” She came to the small figure, and her heart sank. “A mere ring,” she sighed as she picked it up. It was a small ring, gold in color, with something illegible inscribed on the inside. ‘I may as well put it on, that way it won’t get lost,’ her mind said. She slipped it on her finger and picked up the rest of her findings, consisting of a doll, a teddy bear, and a comic book, about a girl named Sailor Moon, a super hero who championed the earth many years ago. An hour later she arrived at a pure white marble wall, completely covered in deep green ivy. She put her hand to it and said, “I wish to enter thy’s secrets, thy’s magic, and thy’s danger. Allow my entrance!” A door appeared where her soft, pale hand had been, and she walked through, and came face to face with a tall, beautiful, white and gold palace, with moonlight blue, marble steps, leading to two white marble doors. She walked up the marble steps and entered the palace into a diamond hall. It had lights made of large diamonds with lights inside of them, so the light bounced about the room. The floor was also made of pure diamonds, so was the ceiling. “Allow me to enter the depths of this chamber, and let my heart decide my fate!” The dark red door opened to a magnificent red chamber, made of pure rubies. Everything was rubies, the floor, the walls, and the ceiling. She took a deep breath and entered, the door closing immediately behind her. Then, she walked to the center of the room, and looked up. Floating about seventeen feet in the air were hundreds of crystals. They looked kind of like the “Heart-Crystals” Sailor Moon had saved such a long time ago. There was a crystal for each soul killed in a disaster, which she could not remember. Each held that person’s soul inside it safe. She lifted up the doll the teddy bear and the comic book, and watched them disappear into the crystal that held the soul of its owner. Then, she removed the golden ring from her finger and lifted it up. After rising about five feet, it dropped down to the floor, but lay unnoticed by her, for her tears, which were building up in her eyes, blocked out all movement. She fled from the room, and stood in the hall while recovering herself. Then, she walked around the palace, thinking of all she had lost. She entered every room, and every closet, thinking about what they once held. She encountered many bedrooms once she reached the top story. There was a light blue one, lined with dark blue; a red one lined with purple; a green on lined with pink; an orange one lined with blue; a light pink one lined with red; a dark green one lined with black; a turquoise one lined with blue; a dark blue one lined with yellow; and a dark purple one lined with dark red. Then, she came across three more, of which she had never seen before. The first was an oval shaped room, which walls and floor were made of light purple, light pink, and light blue coral. It had shell lights that hung on the walls, and it resembled a mermaid’s room. The carpet was cream colored, and the shape of a seashell. The sheets on the bed were silk, and the bed was made of white gold. The room held a large bay window, looking over the distant sea, and was a perfect place to just stop and think, and watch the yellow sun set over the blue-green ocean. The window had a place to site underneath it. It was padded with pillows of pearl made so fine, and woven so delicately, it became a soft clothe. The next room was made of yellow diamond. This room was slightly smaller, but it seemed as though the sun always shone in this room, for it was lined with windows shaped as the sun. The carpet was red and square, to match the rooms shape. The bed was made of gold, and the sheets upon it were orange silk. The ceiling was a golden dome, containing words the owner of this room had engraved upon it. It was like a record of the magical stories of the past. It covered tales from the Silver Millennium all the way to the disaster, right before it hit. The last was a room filled with magnificent colors. The walls were made of pure white opal, which has every color of the rainbow in it, and the floor was made of pure amethyst. The room was bordered with silver. There were purple crystals, almost like the ones in the red room floating up towards the ceiling, but these let out a rainbow light, which seemed to echo about the room. The bed had satin sheet upon it. They were sheets of a rainbow, each color as light as it could be, and fading into the next. They resembled the light beaming out of the crystals on the ceiling. The pillowcases were deep purple, and the bed was made of pure silver. There was an opal and amethyst balcony on one side, which looked over all the gardens, and the front gate. The gardens consisted of all flowers, such as roses, violets, and many others. There was also a large closet, which she inspected. It was filled with the most beautiful of clothes. Many rainbow dresses, and deep purple gowns and silver jewelry. The dresses were made of silk and satin, many with sheep over the top. “I’d better change!” she laughed as she looked down upon her ragged white mini-dress and white cape. She left the wonders of this room, and walked down to the last bedroom. She opened the door, and let out a sigh of relief. It was a white room, lined with pink and blue. It was pure white marble, just like the rest of the palace. The bed was gold with white satin sheets, and the ceiling was a gold dome with pictures carved in it about past events, which the hero Sailor Moon conquered. She walked to her closet, and opened it. There lay a large amount of beautiful dresses. Most of them were white with gold. She changed into one, which was long and white, with poofy sleeves, and was trimmed with gold. She slipped on her white heals, and walked down to the rose garden. ‘It is so peaceful here,’ she thought to herself. ‘It’s just to lonely…’ Then, she spotted something silver out of the corner of her eye move past the gate to the rose garden and in to the main garden. She quickly followed it, and entered the main garden. It was covered in grass, with a large fountain in the middle, which had an angel on it, holding up a full moon, which the water cam out of. ‘Where did it go? I’ll never find it!’ Then, she heard some giggling coming from the Iris garden. She ran in. ‘Who’s there?’ she inquired. “It’s funny how we ended up here on the same day, huh?” said a voice from behind a maple tree. “Beth…?” “Hello Cosmos, it’s nice to see you again.” “Beth!” Cosmos ran into Beth’s arms and started to shiver and cry. “I thought I had lost you all!” she trembled. Beth attempted a smile, but it only came out as a slight lift of the mouth. “No,” she said. “Almost all…” she stopped. She had never seen Cosmos so hysterical, or happy before, and she didn’t want to ruin it for her. “You’ve grown up so much, Beth!” Cosmos said as she looked at her. Beth was tall, about 5’8 1/2”, and in great shape. Her hair was long and brown, and was put perfectly into position in two, high ponytails. Her eyes were big an brown, and had a touch of purple eye shadow on them. Her skin was fair, and her lips lush, light pink. Her dress was far more fancy than those in the opal bedroom’s closet. It came across her shoulders, and her rainbow sleeves drooped off her arms, and reunited with them at her wrists. It was a white dress, at least the first layer was, and it had a fitted sheer layer over that. It was rainbow colors, which was light red at the top, and faded through all the rainbow’s light colors, ending at light purple at the bottom of the dress. The top had a tight fit, and had a large triangle cut out around her bellybutton. The skirt was twirly, and long. The second layer of the dress was deep purple, and the next metallic silver. He shoes were three-inch silver heals, with many criss-cross straps going around her delicate feet. There was a small, purple crystal on each shoe, toward her ankle, which each resembled the light that hung in the opal room. Each crystal had a white opal in the center. The dress looked magnificent on her. It was as if she and the dress were made to go together. “You have too cosmos. Last I saw you, in person, you were at Eternal Sailor Moon’s end, and your beginning.” She responded. “Where are the others, Beth? Why is not all our friend here, embracing each other with laughter and tears as you and I have? Where are they?” Beth stared at the ground for a second and said, “Come with me.” She and Cosmos started walking along side Beth. “Cosmos, Not all of them are with us anymore.” “What do you mean? Have they switched sides?” “No Cosmos, they are…gone.” I found them lying in the debrief of the city. They are now resting with in their crystals. I still haven’t found Eternal Sailor Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto, Chibi Moon, or Cosmic Sailor Seashell or Sun. But they are all still alive, well, most of them anyway. I can feel it.” “Where are they?! Bring me to them!” Cosmos shrieked. “Where are Eternal Sailor Mercury, Mars, Neptune and Saturn?!” “Do not worry, they are safe in the Ruby-Crystal room.” Beth led her in through the garden door, and into the diamond hall, and through the red door. Unlike Cosmos, she didn’t not have to say something to get it to unlock, it unlocked at the touch of her hand. They entered and the door closed magically. “Each of the Scouts has a special crystal, bigger than the rest, do you wish to see them?” “Yes I do.” Cosmos said quickly. Beth walked over to a spot on the far wall, and put her right hand against a certain ruby, a bit larger than the rest. A door appeared through the rubies, and they stepped inside. The room was also red, but much, much darker. It was made of garnets. And up above, there were five crystals, a light blue one, a red one, an orange one, a turquoise one, and a dark, dark purple one. Each glowed with a strange light, that wasn’t the happiest of all the lights Cosmos had seen. “These are the crystals of their souls she said. However, they cannot be awakened until the past is undone, and the evil and darkness is gone. But then, only one can be awakened at a time.” “How do you know all of this, Beth? How do you know how all of this works?” “Have you forgotten? I created the great disaster came upon us, instead of going out to fight, I stayed and made a crystal for each soul that would become bodiless, so that maybe someday, they could be reunited back to earth, and after they died, their soul moved into a crystal which formed in this room at the time of their death, and their body would soon disappear. They can only be brought back once, and if they are lost again after that, they are lost forever, and they can only be brought back when really needed, and when only one scout remains. Eternal Sailor Pluto told me how many lives would be lost, then after that was done, we went to fight, but were to late…and that’s all I remember…” “Please, Beth! Remember more…!” “I can remember no more than you. But I know what happened was a tragedy that will never leave us.” Cosmos started to tremble. “I want them back! I want everybody back!” She shivered as tears dripped down her pink cheeks. “I know Cosmos,” Beth walked over and hugged her dearest friend. “I do too. But the only way is to…what was that?!” Beth let go of Cosmos, and walked back into the Crystal-Ruby room. And she peeked out the door. Cosmos looked too. The white marble doors at the other end of the diamond hall opened, letting the blood red glow of the sunset into the hall. Two tall figures entered carrying three limp figures. But, Beth and Cosmos couldn’t make out who they were, due to the lighting of the hall. “Oh my god!” Cosmos whispered in Beth’s ear. “Burglars!” Beth glanced at Cosmos with raised eyebrows. “I think we should transform,” Beth whispered back. They both stepped back, and held their right hands out to their side. A sparkly, ribbon-like looking substance appeared in their hands, and the transformation began. They spun and twirled in their own virtual place. At the end of the transformation, Beth ended up wearing a white mini dresses, with, instead of a bow, her symbol, which was a purple crystal with a white opal in the middle, like the ones in the Opal bedroom, with white wings attached to it, instead of ribbons. Towards the bottom of the dress, where the pleats started, was another one of these crystals, with white wings attached to them too. Coming out from it, was a rainbow piece of cloth that came down to the bottom of the dress with silver strips on it, and two long, thin, white ribbons which came down to the floor. The dress had a white collar, with silver strips on it. She had rainbow sleeves, with small white wings coming out of them, too. She wore no cloves, but carried a staff, with a large purple, glass crystal on it, just like the ones on her dress, with a white opal in the center, on the end of a long, black, glass staff, with purple glass pieces twirling around it. {{Please, I could think of no other way to describe it, so either e-mail me for a picture, or imagine two long, purple, glass ribbons swirling around a black staff.}} The purple crystal also had white wings attached to it. Her shoes were silver, just like the ones she had been wearing with her dress, but they had white wings attached the back of them. Her hair was still in the same style, but had purple ribbons coming down with them. She also had tiny clips in her hair with white wings on them. On her forehead was a purple heart with a squiggly line on top of it, which was the symbol for “Comet.” She wore a beaded, white opal chocker with her purple crystal in the front. She also wore a long, white cape. Cosmos’s out fit was VERY similar. It was the same dress, but instead of purple crystals, she had white circles with golden stars in them. Instead of silver strips on her collar, she had golden strips. Her sleeves were gold, and she had a gold star on her forehead. She wore a white chocker with a gold star on the front. The piece of cloth coming out form the bottom bow with wings, was white with rainbow strips. Her shoes were white heals with white wings on them, and her stall was white with a white ball on the top with white wings coming out of it, and a circle with the gold star in it on top of the winged ball. She also had a long, white cape. Cosmic Sailor Comet, (Beth,) inched towards the door, and the people had not moved, for transformations take not time at all, except to those in them. “Ready?” Cosmic Sailor Comet asked Sailor Cosmos. Sailor Cosmos nodded with a look of concern and fear, yet determination. “Halt!” They both screamed together at the intruders! “You…” They both gasped. “Katy…Eve…Oh my God!” Beth whispered. “You’re alive!” Sailor Cosmos and Cosmic Sailor Comet ran over to Cosmic Sailor Seashell and Cosmic Sailor Sun. “I’m so glad so see you!” Beth said as she embraced her best friend, and her younger sister, who had actually become more like a best friend. “Me too!” Cosmos said. “My, you have grown a lot, too!” She exclaimed, while drying her crystal tears of joy, for she had not seen her friends for ages, and even then, they were not as they were now. Katy, or Sailor Seashell, was about 5’7”, and was also in great shape. She had long, chestnut hair, with two small braids running down the sides of her head. Her eyes were sparkly blue, and her skin fair, and lips pink. She was also wearing a dress like Cosmos and Beth. It was all the same, except for the sleeves, which were light pink, the stripes on her collar, which were light blue, and her shoes were turquoise and also had white wings in the back. The piece of cloth from her lower symbol with wings was light purple with light pink strips. Her symbol was a cream seashell with a light purple amethyst in the middle. On her forehead was a light purple heart with two triangles coming out of the bottom, this symbolizing “Seashell.” She wore a light purple amethyst chocker with her seashell on it, and also had a long, white cape. Her staff was clear glass, and had her cream seashell with the light purple amethyst on it, on top of the glass and it too had white wings coming out of it. Again, Cosmic Sailor Suns was the same, but the sleeves were yellow, the stripes on the collar were red, her shoes were yellow heals, with white wings in the back. Her symbol was a big sun, with a large, yellow diamond as the center. The sun’s rays were mainly yellow, had some red, and very little orange. The cloth from the bottom sun with white wings was yellow with red stripes. On her forehead was a yellow heart with a dot in it, symbolizing “Sun.” she wore a yellow diamond chocker with her symbol sun in the front. She wore a long white cape, and her staff was yellow glass, with her symbol sun at the top, which also had white wings coming out of it. However, her dress, and Katy’s dress were ripped up, for they had been out rummaging through the junk for days, unable to find anything. “What happened?!” Cosmos shrieked, as her blue eyes came upon the limp heaps on the floor. “Is that…Eternal Sailor Jupiter?! Uranus?! Oh my God…CHIBI MOON! NO! How could this happen?! What happened to them? Tell me!” “We found them trying to walk back here. Once we go to them, they had passed out. They are badly hurt in the knees, arms, legs, and in Chibi Moon’s case, the heart…” Katy said. “Chibi Moon! Will she be okay?” Cosmos started to tear. Her face stained with pink spots as her tears again blinded her. “I want Rini back, please! Don’t let her leave me!” Cosmos was hysterical, leaning over Rini’s faint body. Rini had grown up so much, she was tall, and had long pink hair. She was skinny, and beautiful, just as her mother had been before her. Although, she wasn’t strong enough to take on her cosmic form, and join Cosmos and The Cosmic Legendary Scouts. She had not had enough experience, for she lived most of her life in the palace in the future, where her mother and father looked over her, and guarded her with their dear lives. However, when the disaster hit, she had comeback from the future just a tad to late, so she too received a deadly fate. “I don’t know if she’ll be okay,” said Cosmic Sailor Sun, or Eve. “The other two will surely live, they just will need care, and someone to watch over them. But, I don’t know about Rini. She is barley breathing. Shall we put her to bed?” “No, I will do that, Beth and Eve, you carry Jupiter and Uranus to their rooms, and watch over them, clean their wounds, and help them recover. Katy will help me with Rini.” “Yes.” Beth grabbed Jupiter, and flung her over her shoulder, and carried her up the many marble staircases, and into her green room. Eve did the same with Sailor Uranus. “Cosmos, I am so sorry!” Katy said as she looked at poor Rini. I really tried to save her. If I had not been so far away, I could have saved her from this, but now fate with decide where she is to go.” Cosmos didn’t say anything, she just continued to wipe Rini’s arm with a white towel. Then, she bandaged it and continued to clean her other scratches. “Please answer me, Cosmos, Eve and I tried. Please don’t be mad at us. We brought her here as fast as we could.” Cosmos still did not answer. Her face was still a pink flush, and her eyes dripping with tears. “It’s not you,” she finally said, after a long, awkward pause. Katy relaxed a little. “It’s that I could not stop the disaster, whatever it was. I was the reason this happened I was the cause of Rini’s death, of your worry, and of my pain.” Katy said nothing, but she picked up Rini and carried her to her to her pink quartz room. It was lined with rubies. He bed was gold, and had light pink satin sheets, just the color of her hair. Cosmos followed, and opened the bed, and then covered up Rini after Katy laid her in her bed. “I’m sorry,” Katy said lightly, tears forming in her blue eyes. “Me, too,” said Cosmos, also tearing. They embraced each other in a hug, which probably meant the entire world to each other. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Meanwhile…. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Beth laid Eternal Sailor Jupiter in her bed. Then, she bandaged her arm, and her leg with soft cloth. “That should hold the blood in,” Beth said. Jupiter groaned. Beth gasped. “Jupiter? Speak to me? Can you hear me? Are you awake?” Beth said anxiously. She grabbed Jupiter’s shoulders and shook her gently. “Beth? Where am I? What happened?” Jupiter managed to whisper. Her voice was scratchy, and weak. “I found you walking towards the Marble Palace, then you fainted. You are badly hurt in the leg and knee.” “What? Is this after the disaster? What happened to everyone? Where is Uranus? Is Cosmos here? I’m getting out of bed to see her.” “No! You need rest. She will come in later.” “Beth, you have always been one of my best friends. Why wont you let me see my other best friend? Don’t you care for me? Don’t you want me to be happy?” “Jupiter! You are getting love and care mixed up. For starters, you are in so shape to even move, and secondly, Cosmos will only make you feel worse, she feels guilt and remorse for letting the disaster occur…” “What was it? What was the disaster?” “I don’t know. No one knows, now you need your rest…” it was too late, Eternal Sailor Jupiter fell fast asleep. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ In Uranus’s room… ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ “Don’t worry,” Eve’s soft voice drifted into the ears of the unconscious soldier. “You’ll be fine.” Eve looked around to make sure no one was listening, then she decided to treat Uranus as kind of a diary while she was unconscious. “I don’t know what to do.” She started. “Nothing I do seems to make a difference. I try so hard to keep up with Beth and Katy, but it never works. Just because I am smaller doesn’t mean I am not powerful. And now it seems as though I have no idea what they are talking about half the time, only that it is about the disaster. I will never get to be a leader…” Eve stood up and left the room, but as she got to the door, she heard a faint voice… “Don’t worry, you will,” said the weak voice. Eve smiled. ‘Thank you, Uranus.’ She though. She left the room. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ “They will be alright,” said Beth, as she Cosmos, Katy and Eve sat down in the Sapphire conference room. It was completely sapphires, and had a dark blue, wood table that could hold about 30 people, which was pretty ironic for there were only four people sitting at the table. “Okay, but what are we going to do? We will never be able to find anything out in the remains of the city. And we can’t go back in time, because Pluto is…gone.” “Don’t worry Cosmos. I can find a way to help, but I need a good night sleep. Lets all meet here in the morning. Goodnight.” Beth stood up, grabbed her staff, and headed up to the opal room. Which, fortunately for her, was her bedroom. “We’d better go, too. See you in the morning.” Katy and Eve stood up. Katy went to her bedroom, the Coral room, and eve went to the yellow-diamond room, which was her bedroom. Cosmos stared out the large window in the Sapphire room. Then, she stood up, and headed up the long, white marble staircase to go to bed. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ So, that’s the first chapter! I hope you liked it, cause I worked hard on it. The next chapter is coming soon. If you want some more info about…anything…just e-mail me, and I will happily respond…not only will I respond, I will do it fast (I don’t get that much mail.)